Political Quotes

“the good Senator from Pennsylvania is correct. I want to see this bill passed. I want to see this bill passed for all the reasons I have talked about many times in committee and on this floor. This is about living up to the promises for our veterans. This is about making sure that when the veterans come back from exposures to burn pits or oil well fires or Agent Orange, that they don't have to go to the VA and fight for their healthcare and their benefits. It impacts 3\1/2\ million veterans in this country. By the way, there will be a few more who die before we get this bill passed. And I would also say that, as the Senator from Pennsylvania says, I am all for the $278.4 billion over 10 years on this bill; I have got no problem with that--well, the fact is, he does have a problem with that. The fact is, by doing what happened today on this floor, the real issue here--and make no mistake about it--is the money that is being spent to take care of our veterans. And I have said it before, and I will say it again. If you have the guts to send somebody to war, then you better have the guts to take care of them when they get back home--or don't send them in the first place. Now, let's talk about the $400 billion, OK, because, quite frankly, what this is about--this is about not even trusting the people in this body. We have an Appropriations Committee, and we vote on appropriations bills, and we set the levels in the accounts based off of appropriations.…”